John Fiske Papers: Finding Aid
Related Materials in the Huntington Library
- John Fiske Addenda (Call number: mssFiske addenda)
Removed or Separated Material
- Charles Darwin letters to Fiske, 1871-1880 (HM 8260-2869)
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell. Letter to John Fiske. 1897 October 3 (HM 8270)
- J.B. Millet Co. (HM 7057-7060)
- Lowell, James Russell. Letter to John Fiske. 1888 January 3 (HM 5382)
- Herbert Spencer (HM 13718-13760) includes: Fiske, John. Herbert Spencer's request to religion : [an address at a farewell banquet to Spencer] (HM 13759) and Fiske, John. "Precisely the doctrine held and taught by Mr. Spencer," 1884 August 24. (HM 13760)
- Colonization of the New World ... (Philadelphia and New York: Lea Brothers & Company, [1902]) (Call number: 193952 v. 1-2)
- Independence of the New World ... (Philadelphia: Lea Brothers, [c1902]) (Call number: 193953 v. 1-2)
- Modern development of the new world ... (Philadelphia: Lea Brothers, [1902]) (Call number: 193954 v. 1-2)
- Brooks, James Willson (14 items)
- Brooks, Martha Willson (12 items)
- Fiske, Abby Morgan (Brooks) (436 items)
- Gilbert, Shepherd D. (42 items)
- Ginn & Co. (35 items)
- Green, James (7 items)
- Holt, Henry (39 items)
- Lewis, Polly (Fisk) Bound (16 items)
- Richmond, Henry A. (41 items)
- Roberts, George Litch (26 items)
- Spencer, Hebrert (6 items)
- Stoughton, Edwin Wallace (8 items)
- Stoughton, Mary Fisk (Bound) Green (599 items)
- Wilcox, Lizzie (15 items)
- Wilson, James Grant (88 items)
Bound volumes
Manuscripts
American Political Ideas viewed from the standpoint of universal history [3 lectures]. 1885 HM 18874
American Revolution: Part One (pages 1-550) [Volume I in bound set "Original MSS. Histories and Essays by John Fiske"]. 1891 HM 18875 vol. 1
American Revolution: Part Two (pages 551-end) [Volume II in bound set "Original MSS. Histories and Essays by John Fiske"]. 1891 HM 18875 vol. 2
Autobiographical Notes. [1884] HM 18876
B. Franklin : [a biographical sketch]. Approximately 1887 HM 18882
The Beginnings of New England [Volume V in bound set "Original MSS. Histories and Essays by John Fiske"]. 1889 HM 18877
The Boston Tea Party : [a lecture]. Approximately 1894 HM 18878
Civil Government in the United States [Volume XI in bound set "Original MSS. Histories and Essays by John Fiske"]. 1890 HM 18879
The Dutch and Quaker Colonies: Part One (pages 1-258) [1 of 2 volumes: Volume XIV in bound set "Original MSS. Histories and Essays by John Fiske"]. 1899 HM 18880 vol. 1
The Dutch and Quaker Colonies: Part Two (pages 259-end) [2 of 2 volumes: Volume XV in bound set "Original MSS. Histories and Essays by John Fiske"]. 1899 HM 18880 vol. 2
Essays on a Liberal Education. Edited by Rev. F. W. Farrar ... London, 1867 [reviewed by John Fiske for the North American Review. [1868] HM 18884
Europe before the Arrival of Man : [an article]. 1882 HM 18881
History of the United States [Volume XII in bound set "Original MSS. Histories and Essays by John Fiske"]. Approximately 1893 HM 18883
John Tyndall : [a biographical sketch]. 1894 HM 18885
The Mississippi Valley in the Civil War [Volume IV in bound set "Original MSS. Histories and Essays by John Fiske"]. 1900 HM 18886
New France and New England [1 volume: Volume XIII in bound set "Original MSS. Histories and Essays by John Fiske"]. 1901 HM 18889
Old Virginia and her Neighbors [Volumes XVI-XVII in bound set "Original MSS. Histories and Essays by John Fiske"]. 1897 HM 18890
Preface to Appleton's Encyclopaedia of American Biography. HM 18873
Scenes and Characters in American History: Part One [1 of 2 volumes: Volume VI in bound set "Original MSS. Histories and Essays by John Fiske"]. HM 18891
Schubert : [a biographical sketch] [1 volume; cover title: "A Sketch on Franz Schubert"; ]. [1891?-1905] HM 18887
Thomas Hutchinson, last Royal Governor of Massachusetts : [a biographical sketch/lecture]. Approximately 1888 HM 18888
The War for Independence [1 volume: Volume III in bound set "Original MSS. Histories and Essays by John Fiske"]. 1889 HM 18892
Correspondence
Letters from John Fiske to Shepard Devereux Gilbert [38 letters and 4 postcards]. 1863-1898 HM 24739-24780
Letters of John Fiske as joint editor of Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography. 1886-1888 HM 24781-24877
Boxed materials
Correspondence
1850-1859
1860-1862
1863-1864
1865-1868
1869-1872
1873-1875
1876-1878
1879
1880-1882+
1883-1886
1887-1891
1892-1893
1896-1901
Note
Fiske, John. Letters to Henry Holt, approximately 1868-1896. HM 24878-24916
Fiske, John. Letters to Henry A. Richmond, 1881-1899. HM 24917-24957
Letters from John Fiske to Edwin Ginn and Ginn & Co. [35 letters and one duplicate) 1886-1888 HM 25385-25420
Fiske-Thomas Henry Huxley correspondence. HM 13243-13257
Manuscripts, documents, and ephemera
[Fiske's itinerary for his lecture course in the Spring of 1892]. [1892 January] FK 1278
"The Genesis of Language" [a critical comment on the essay, by the author]. 1885 August 2 FK 1279
To the Middleton Musical Association [receipted bill]. 1858 October 12 FK 1280
Priced lists of histories ... [1858] FK 1281
Three lists of books ... [1859] FK 1282
Grand Beethoven night ... [program of music]. 1880 December 18 FK 1283
The Idea of God : Notes for the first draft, written in the Little Kitchen at Petersham. [1885 after July 12] FK 1284
[Itemized statement and summary of debts]. 1885 December 22 FK 1285
[Summer seasons at Petersham from 1868 to 1885]. 1885 FK 1286
Whereabouts of J. F., April 9 to May 7 : [a list of addresses for] Letters and Telegrams. [1900] FK 1287
The Genesis of Language. [1869] FK 1288
Mass in B Minor : a memorandum ... in pencil. Approximately 1873 FK 1289
[Examination paper for admission to the Massachusetts Bar]. 1864 HM 7227
Are we Celts or Teutons [sections VII and VIII only]. 1869 HM 7228
"Specifications for Carpenter's Work ..." [for E. W. Stoughton's house on Berkeley Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts, unbound]. 1877 HM 7229
New England : [article drawn from Fiske's The Beginning of New England]. Approximately 1889 HM 7230
To John Fiske, L.L.D. an Acrostic, but not by a Cross Stick ... 1897 February 12 HM 18866
A Candid Theologian. To the Editor of the Christian Union : [a letter]. 1873 HM 18867
John Fiske's miscellaneous receipts & expenses. Jan. 1886. 1886 HM 18868
[Plat showing six lots on Berkeley Place, Cambridge, Massachusetts, giving the names of owners and footage for each]. Approximately 1892 HM 18869
The Peasant Girl and the Fairy : [a story for children]. Approximately 1884 HM 18870
Spain and France in the New World : [a lecture delivered in Boston, October 21, 1892 (incomplete)]. Approximately 1892 HM 18871
Cosmic Philosophy ... 1901 April 27 HM 18872
Mass in B Minor : [the score and vocal parts]. 1871 December-1873 June HM 18893 a-b
Il Metauro: a sonata for the organ or pianoforte. [Approximately 1857] HM 18894
Shront: an Opera. 1857 HM 18895
Ephemera